Support System for Improved Quality Healthcare

Abstract

The present invention, defined as MEGICS (Medical+Logics), has been developed in order to improve quality of care and enhance the efficiency of operation of healthcare facilities and providers. When front-line healthcare doctors and nurses make various clinical decisions, MEGICS management system can provide them with relevant clinical knowledge in a timely manner. MEGICS management system can, therefore, increase the level of user satisfaction and provide patients with better quality of healthcare services. The Inventor believes that the present invention, MEGICS, can penetrate a new market and be easily adopted by healthcare facilities, due to its flexible system structure, experience-based approach, and user-friendly features.

1 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics, and having the capability to update medical records, said system comprising:
 a healthcare management system having a framework that includes a business layer, a communicational layer, a data layer and a healthcare adapter, said healthcare adapter designed to establish electrical and data communication with a hospital computer system;   said business layer have plurality of information processing instructions;   said communications layer utilizing XML technology to communication data between said business layer and said communications layer,   said healthcare management system includes a means for establishing electrical and data communication between said communications layer with a plurality of applications; and   said healthcare management system including a means to establishing electrical and data communication between said data layer with a plurality of databases.   
     
     
         2 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics as recited in  claim 1 , where said plurality of databases includes a drug information database, a DUR and insurance information database, an evidence and rule-based database and another medical information and resources database. 
     
     
         3 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics as recited in  claim 1 , wherein said communications layer utilizes Stream I/O, Flat File, Web Service, HTML, HTTP, XML protocols for communicating with said healthcare adapter. 
     
     
         4 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics as recited in  claim 1 , wherein said applications includes one or more drug identity reports, a MediGuide reports, system management reports and others such as Hospital Pharmacy Administration report and Hospital Management report in Quality Assurance and Quality Control. 
     
     
         5 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics as recited in  claim 2 , wherein said evidence and rule-based database includes a medical rule engine that has an electrical and data communication with a medical rule database, a medical rules management system, and a API adapter that has an electrical and data communication with a web-based medical service, and medical applications. 
     
     
         6 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics as recited in  claim 2 , wherein said drug information database includes information from the FDA, CDC, insurance contents, medical standards, government rules, insurance company rules, and resource database. 
     
     
         7 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics as recited in  claim 6 , wherein said drug information database provides information upon a user's demand the includes information on a product, generic information for a professional, medication guide, interactions among food, drug and disease, insurance information, drug information at clinical or hospital site, patient drug literature, education and consulting, guide for insurance claims, and monitoring means for prescription information. 
     
     
         8 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics as recited in  claim 6 , wherein said drug information database includes a master list that provides data on the product including package information, a product image, generic classification including interactions, disease classification including interactions, food classification including interactions, allergy classification including interactions, DUR rules, insurance information, and other medical information including disease and health conditions, medical dictionary, journal health news. 
     
     
         9 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics as recited in claim wherein said business layer includes a data mining and information process, a clinical decision support system logics, drug information processing, and insurance processing information. 
     
     
         10 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics as recited in  claim 9 , wherein said data mining process includes an analysis and statistical module that communicates database information in reports for physicians, hospital staff and management review. 
     
     
         11 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics as recited in  claim 1 , wherein a means to upload updated versions of the executables and new system requirement specifications and databases can be accomplished either manually or automatically locally or remotely. 
     
     
         12 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the at least one computer system is located at a healthcare facility, wherein the system further comprises software executing on said processor for providing the medical data to the healthcare facility computer. 
     
     
         13 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics as recited in  claim 1 , wherein said computer has a means to apply a time and date stamp on the data, compliance status, exceptions, system network configuration, identity and number of computers and access. 
     
     
         14 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics as recited in  claim 1 , wherein access to said computer system requires a pass code whereby said pass code is a unique alphanumeric series of digits. 
     
     
         15 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics as recited in  claim 1 , Provides a validated data collection by building refined relationships in the data mining process among diverse data resources, such as unknown patterns and unknown records. 
     
     
         16 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics as recited in  claim 1 , wherein said system provides expandability and accessible methods, such as use of portable home health devices for initial preliminary self-treatment which can be added to the management system. 
     
     
         17 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics as recited in  claim 1 , wherein said system provides excellent data security due to non-transmission of personal information to outside sources. 
     
     
         18 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics as recited in  claim 1 , wherein said system is compatible with PC, Mac, and mobile devices due to its web service-based model. 
     
     
         19 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics as recited in  claim 1 , wherein said system permits a user to access and review a consolidated up-to-date treatment and drug database and make informed treatment decisions. 
     
     
         20 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics as recited in  claim 1 , wherein said system enables healthcare providers to offer optimum treatments for more accurate diagnoses of patients' state via the intricate mapping and data mining of patient history, prescription, treatment and health condition information. 
     
     
         21 . A system for reviewing information and patient biometrics as recited in  claim 1 , wherein said system can be implemented to the existing clinical or hospital mainframe system by providing a module that matches the different coding or standards of the user's program with the specific code or language.